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Can you identify this plant please?

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windyWillo · 20/07/2020 22:47

I found this plant in the middle of a field during my daily exercise walks. It is very pretty. I want to take a seedling or a cutting for my garden but worried that it maybe a weed. Please help.

Can you identify this plant please?
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MysteriesOfTheOrganism · 20/07/2020 22:51

Looks like chamomile.

Bowerbird5 · 21/07/2020 00:47

Chamomile

Can you identify this plant please?
Beebumble2 · 21/07/2020 07:10

Bowerbird5 that looks like Feverfew. Chamomile is lower growing and has fine hairy leaves.

MereDintofPandiculation · 21/07/2020 07:24

Yes, bowerbird's is feverfew - different leaves from windy's which is one of the chamomiles or mayweeds, hard to id from a photo. Windy - a weed is not a type of plant - it is a gardening term depending entirely on context. In my garden, Alchemilla mollis is a weed, and I pull it up wherever I see it, but it's on sale from Crocus at £6, so presumably there are people who will pay to add it to their gardens. So what do you mean when you say "worried that it may be a weed"? Are you worried that it will be invasive, or that people will secretly snigger when they see you cherishing it?

Incidentally, you can't dig up a plant (even a seedling) without landowner's permission, and I don't think that will grow from a cutting. You could collect seed.

windyWillo · 21/07/2020 13:32

Thank you very much for all your replies. Yes I was worried it may become invasive. We already have bamboo planted by previous house owner and it is so hard to get rid of, hence my worry about this being invasive. I am not at all worried about people singgering as I am a beginner in gardening and didn’t occur to me people may do that.
Land owner is a friend and I already asked if he minds and he said go ahead.

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verypeckish · 21/07/2020 21:59

It does seed all over, but they are easily pulled up if they grow where you don't want them. I've had them randomly appearing in my garden for 30+ years, and they're not a nuisance.

Bowerbird5 · 22/07/2020 18:23

Is it, friend told me it was chamomile 😂 the flowers are similar. I don’t think I planted it and three have come up this year. We rejigged that bed last year perhaps it came in with other plants. Would you keep some of it or not? It looks so pretty at the moment I have left it. A lot of that bed was out early because of the weather and most finished. There were lupins x2 in there and it looks like I lost them in the winter.
Windywillo when the Corona is over👏🏼 Or less aggressive look out for Gardening clubs. I had just been to several months of some very interesting talks and had been invited by my friend last summer to Crook Hall, Durham on their summer trip. Lovely people as well.

Beebumble2 · 22/07/2020 18:56

I like the odd self sowing of feverfew. If it gets too much just remove some. It only spreads by seed, so not likely to overwhelm you.

MereDintofPandiculation · 22/07/2020 21:15

Is it, friend told me it was chamomile 😂 the flowers are similar. But the leaves are very different. maybe they were misled by the flowers and the smell.

Bowerbird5 · 24/07/2020 01:07

Yes, they are from the same family though. I am wondering if my daughter planted it.

MereDintofPandiculation · 25/07/2020 15:51

There's a lot of things in the same family as feverfew and chamomileGrin - it includes lettuce, thistles, dandelions, ragwort....

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